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Text -- Proverbs 21:1-16 (NET)

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21:1 The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants. 21:2 All of a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the Lord evaluates the motives. 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. 21:4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart– the agricultural product of the wicked is sin. 21:5 The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. 21:6 Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death. 21:7 The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they refuse to do what is right. 21:8 The way of the guilty person is devious, but as for the pure, his way is upright. 21:9 It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife. 21:10 The appetite of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor is shown no favor in his eyes. 21:11 When a scorner is punished, the naive becomes wise; when a wise person is instructed, he gains knowledge. 21:12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin. 21:13 The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered. 21:14 A gift given in secret subdues anger, and a bribe given secretly subdues strong wrath. 21:15 Doing justice brings joy to the righteous and terror to those who do evil. 21:16 The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.
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NET Notes: Pro 21:1 The farmer channels irrigation ditches where he wants them, where they will do the most good; so does the Lord with the king. No king is supreme; the ...

NET Notes: Pro 21:2 Heb “the hearts.” The term לֵב (lev, “heart”) is used as a metonymy of association for thoughts and motives ...

NET Notes: Pro 21:3 The Lord prefers righteousness above religious service (e.g., Prov 15:8; 21:29; 1 Sam 15:22; Ps 40:6-8; Isa 1:11-17). This is not a rejection of ritua...

NET Notes: Pro 21:4 Heb “the tillage [נִר, nir] of the wicked is sin” (so NAB). The subject picks up the subjects of the first half of the v...

NET Notes: Pro 21:5 Heb “lack; need; thing needed”; NRSV “to want.”

NET Notes: Pro 21:6 The Hebrew has “seekers of death,” meaning “[they that seek them] are seekers of death,” or that the fortune is “a fleet...

NET Notes: Pro 21:7 Heb “they refuse to do justice” (so ASV); NASB “refuse to act with justice.”

NET Notes: Pro 21:8 If this translation stands, then the construction is formed with an independent nominative absolute, resumed by the suffixed noun as the formal subjec...

NET Notes: Pro 21:9 Heb “a wife of contentions”; KJV “a brawling woman”; TEV, CEV “a nagging wife.” The Greek version has no reference...

NET Notes: Pro 21:10 The form יֻחַן (yukhan) is a Hophal imperfect from חָנַן (khanan); it means “to be s...

NET Notes: Pro 21:11 Heb “in the instructing of the wise.” The construction uses the Hiphil infinitive construct הַשְׂכ...

NET Notes: Pro 21:12 Heb “to evil” (i.e., catastrophe); cf. NLT “to disaster.”

NET Notes: Pro 21:13 The proverb is teaching that those who show mercy will receive mercy. It involves the principle of talionic justice – those who refuse the needs...

NET Notes: Pro 21:14 The LXX offers a moralizing translation not too closely tied to the MT: “he who withholds a gift stirs up violent wrath.”

NET Notes: Pro 21:15 The noun means “terror (NAB, NASB, NIV), destruction (KJV, ASV), ruin (cf. NCV).” Its related verb means “be shattered, dismayed....

NET Notes: Pro 21:16 The departed are the Shades (the Rephaim). The literal expression “will rest among the Shades” means “will be numbered among the dea...

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